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• After watching the video Denied Affordable Medicine, do you think pharmaceutical companies have a social responsibility to help those in need? Why or why not? Explain your answer, and citation
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• Do you think the pharmaceutical companies need to provide medicines for free, not even sell them for a couple pennies, to the poor in developing nations?

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This response addresses the issue of Big Pharma and the skyrocketing prices they charge in Western countries for life-saving drugs.

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After watching the video Denied Affordable Medicine, do you think pharmaceutical companies have a social responsibility to help those in need? Why or why not? Explain your answer, and citation.

Pharmaceutical companies do have a moral responsibility to help those in need but because they are for-profit corporate conglomerates that are immersed ...

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